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After a 30 year career on radio in markets from New York to San Francisco to satellite and network, David H. Lawrence XVII decided to make a change. He hung up his headphones and retired from hosting 3 network/satellite radio shows to head to Los Angeles, to concentrate solely on acting in front of the camera.

This new phase of Lawrence's performance career seems to fit him like a glove.

The Cleveland native is seen on TBS' Frank TV, CBS' legendary CSI and military thriller The Unit, and his breakout role as one of the Villains, puppet master Eric Doyle on NBC's smash hit Heroes, has fans and the media buzzing.

As a new media expert, David Lawrence was heard nightly as the wacky, eclectic and highly opinionated host of The David Lawrence Show, and weekend Online Tonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolved around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle. The Emmy-award winning and Clio-nominated Lawrence is deeply rooted in the music industry as well, and anchored The Net Music Countdown for almost a decade. These shows were heard on over 300 radio stations and both XM and Sirius Satellite Radio.

Lawrence is at the forefront of the podcasting revolution, having delivered daily RealAudio and MP3 "podcasts" via email from early 1994. Lawrence counts over 350 Fortune 500 and private companies as podcasting clients, either as a podcast talent, producer, designer or consultant. Each night, he voices over 25 daily podcast episodes for clients.

Lawrence appeared on radio for over 30 years as a top rated air personality on stations like WGN/Chicago, WMAL, WMZQ and WRQX/Washington DC, WGAR, WGCL, and WDMT/Cleveland, KC101/New Haven, WTAE/Pittsburgh and WNCI and WLVQ/Columbus. He is a founding member and was executive producer of the legendary radio comedy ensemble, the American Comedy Network. He wrote the best-selling Learn HTML on The Macintosh, the first web design book exclusively for Macintosh users.

His is the voice of America Online's customer service lines, as well as the voice of over 1500 other interactive voice response telephone systems - he is one of the most often heard voices in the world, and is also a SAG and AFTRA actor, starring on television and in films, including the webisodic hit, Goodnight Burbank as Frank, the station manager.

When not acting, he helps other actors create their own voiceover career with his award winning Demos2GoGo voice demo service. He also teaches voicework workshops at various studios around Los Angeles.

His past theatre and voice work include originating the role of Charles Bukowski in Sacred Fools' LA's award-winning Bukowsical!, Potter in It's A Wonderful Life, the role of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, as well as parts in The Children's Hour, The Good Doctor, Born Yesterday, The Fall of the House of Usher and starred as Barry Champlain in Talk Radio. He has performed on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a lifelong member of Mensa.

Lawrence makes regular appearances as an industry commentator on G4, CNN, FOX, CBS, MS-NBC, and Tribune broadcasting outlets as well as the CBC and the BBC, where he is a featured tech expert on Radio 5 Live's Up All Night. He has delivered keynote addresses, inservice teaching and has served as both moderator and panel member at conferences ranging from MacWorld, CES, FOSE and COMDEX to The Micropayment Conference, Gnomedex, the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo and the NAB. His dozens of award winning web sites include work featured in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian, the home page for America Online CEO Steve Case, Quincy Jones' Qradio.net site (nominated for a WIRED Reader Rant award), and the AMD Professional Gamer's League site.

Lili VonSchtupp* needed a fresh start. She moved to Washington DC and got her dream job. "I did affiliate relations for Online Tonight with David Lawrence. I slowly worked my way into the producer's chair by impressing David with my assets. (not those assets), my ability to make a CAT5 cable Ethernet cable, type (those of you in the chat room-shut up!) and work a phone system.

"I'm currently single, okay married to my job. I spend my evenings online with our listeners and I have no pets or children - that I know of."** You can read more about Lili at:

LiliVonSchtupp.com
*Okay, the name. Lili Von Schtupp comes from the mind of a brilliant man, Mel Brooks. Blazing Saddles is one of my favorite movies...I'd tell you more but, "I'm tired." Thank you Madeline Kahn, you are missed.
**Carol Liefer gets the credit for the "no kids, that I know of" line...credit where credit is due.